Artist Statement
If I love you, I want you to see what I see. Your story is not only worth telling but being remembered.
My work is a story constructed in collaboration. It is a shared mythic retelling of my subjects portrayed as powerful and apotheosized rendered in a range from realism to abstraction. The goal of their portrait is to immortalize their personal, cultural, spiritual, and botanical background. I utilize Black American regional social and familial norms, African diasporic literature, symbols, folkways, and fauna to reference our shared cultural and spiritual histories. The retelling is a gift, an expression of love, and a reckoning with the finality of life.